ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim posted a summary of the 150th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call. This week, developers agreed to leave a 30-day buffer between the last public testnet upgrade and the mainnet upgrade, allowing network stakeholders sufficient time to update their software; if the public testnet launches smoothly, the earliest activation time for Pectra on the Ethereum mainnet is early April, with developers estimating April 8; in addition, Pectra Devnet 6 launched on February 5. So far, the development network has been running smoothly without any major issues.

ChainCatcher news, summarized by Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim, highlighted that the 147th Ethereum Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) meeting focused on the advancement plan for Pectra Devnet 5. The Mekong network (based on the Pectra Devnet 4 specifications) is running stably, with no new issues reported.Developers suggested removing the GAS limit for validator modification blocks to avoid consensus failures and decided to remove EIP 7742, simplifying the Pectra upgrade process by increasing the Blob count through modifications to the genesis configuration. The team plans to complete the deployment of Pectra Devnet 5 by the end of the year and continue optimizing related EIPs and specifications.

ChainCatcher news, Nethermind researcher Aayush Giri published a summary of the 15th Starknet Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) call. This week, developers discussed the upgrade of the mainnet to version v0.13.3, equipped with Stateless Compression features to reduce mainnet costs; the network architecture is divided into three different layers; new methods to prevent remote consensus attacks; improvements in P2P message routing between nodes, etc.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 142nd Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call. This week, developers discussed the decision to split the Pectra upgrade into two hard forks, developers have begun fuzz testing on Pectra Devnet 3, communicated pending issues related to Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) on Pectra Devnet 3, and a developer of the Base Rollup protocol, known by the pseudonym Francis, submitted an analysis report to support increasing the Blob Gas target for the first part of the Pectra upgrade.